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Allstar87

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« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2007, 10:28:55 PM »
[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' post=\'150902\' date=\'Apr 24 2007, 08:52 PM\']
...no payoff for the preliminaries, etc, the winner just advanced to the next round of competition.

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So nobody else got anything, even if they made it all the way to the championship round?

...

...that stinks.
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BrandonFG

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« Reply #16 on: April 24, 2007, 10:56:32 PM »
[quote name=\'Allstar87\' post=\'150911\' date=\'Apr 24 2007, 10:28 PM\']
So nobody else got anything, even if they made it all the way to the championship round?

...

...that stinks.
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Yeah, but for a $1000 grand prize on a low-budget network, I'm not at all surprised.

I am kinda surprised they couldn't find some educational company to at least provide some cheap prizes, even if it's a Webster's dictionary.
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Matt Ottinger

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« Reply #17 on: April 24, 2007, 11:06:21 PM »
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'150914\' date=\'Apr 24 2007, 10:56 PM\']
Yeah, but for a $1000 grand prize on a low-budget network, I'm not at all surprised.[/quote]
No, I'm sorry.  I run a tiny, TINY educational-access cable station for a small community in a small TV market in mid-Michigan, and if I had to, I could come up with a thousand-dollar prize for a game show.

I'm a big fan of playing game shows for little or nothing in the way of prizes (see the G-T panel shows and many of the great British games).  But if you're going to make such a huge deal about your prize that you make it part of the title of your show, then dammit, step up to the plate.  

Just one of 783 things wrong with what is quite possibly the worst nationally-distributed game show of all time.  And I've seen Bible Baffle.
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« Reply #18 on: April 24, 2007, 11:15:11 PM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'150915\' date=\'Apr 24 2007, 11:06 PM\']
And I've seen Bible Baffle.
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Alright, I must ask...how was THAT one conducted?
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« Reply #19 on: April 24, 2007, 11:28:24 PM »
[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'150918\' date=\'Apr 24 2007, 11:15 PM\']Alright, I must ask...how was THAT one conducted?[/quote]
Check it out, one of our very first threads here.
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TheLastResort

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« Reply #20 on: April 24, 2007, 11:51:01 PM »
What the hell is the Black Family Channel?
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« Reply #21 on: April 25, 2007, 12:22:50 AM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'150921\' date=\'Apr 24 2007, 11:28 PM\']
[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'150918\' date=\'Apr 24 2007, 11:15 PM\']Alright, I must ask...how was THAT one conducted?[/quote]
Check it out, one of our very first threads here.
[/quote]

Thanks for the reminder about "Bible Bowl".  It taped in a nondescript studio just a few miles from my old house in Carrollton, TX.  In fact, a couple of my friends were on it.  They invariably wore their Bible Boys or Gospel Girls shirts.  I know that at one point "Bible Bowl" repeats followed "One Way" on TBN Saturday mornings.
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BrandonFG

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« Reply #22 on: April 25, 2007, 12:28:37 AM »
[quote name=\'TheLastResort\' post=\'150924\' date=\'Apr 24 2007, 11:51 PM\']
What the hell is the Black Family Channel?
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Cable channel seen usually on digital cable channels (I know Cox Communications in Virginia has/had it), and it specialized in black programming (i.e. sitcom reruns with mainly black casts), as well as football games b/w historically black colleges and universities. It also specialized in gospel music programs, but the entire station had a low-budget public access look and feel to it.

Originally called MBC (Major Black Channel I think), it was the answer to BET, but TVOne has stepped up as a more formidable competitor.
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« Reply #23 on: April 25, 2007, 10:19:54 AM »
This is probably generating itself to being the best thread evar.

$1,000 only?  No consolation prizes?  LAME.  UK Countdown gives away more!
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« Reply #24 on: April 25, 2007, 10:50:45 AM »
[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'150944\' date=\'Apr 25 2007, 10:19 AM\']
This is probably generating itself to being the best thread evar.

$1,000 only?  No consolation prizes?  LAME.  UK Countdown gives away more!
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Maybe they should have got Matt Lesko as a prize wrangler.
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comicus

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« Reply #25 on: April 25, 2007, 03:28:09 PM »
From the beyond, Booker T. Washington weeps with shame.
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DrBear

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« Reply #26 on: April 25, 2007, 03:52:30 PM »
Question: Does this show suffer from Les'Money Syndrome?
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« Reply #27 on: April 25, 2007, 04:59:45 PM »
[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'150972\' date=\'Apr 25 2007, 02:52 PM\']
Question: Does this show suffer from Les'Money Syndrome?
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Leave Moonves out of this.  :)

MBC, BFC's original identity, stood for "Major Broadcasting Company."  Chortle, chortle, snort, snort.
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tpirfan28

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« Reply #28 on: April 26, 2007, 11:25:15 PM »
The quality is slightly sub-par...

...but here's a gift for all our wonderful GSF members

Not responsible for the destroying of computers, speakers, or (heaven forbid) iPods.
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Steve Gavazzi

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« Reply #29 on: April 27, 2007, 02:09:23 AM »
[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'151065\' date=\'Apr 26 2007, 11:25 PM\']
The quality is slightly sub-par...[/quote]

...and the sound's a little choppy, too. :-)
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